Counseling for Reducing
Burnout
You take care of everyone. Your family, your patients/clients/students and people naturally come to you all the time for everything.
You are compassionate, caring and big-hearted—always wanting to help and support others. It’s helped you build the career and family that you are so thankful for now.
Here’s the thing: you have so many people leaning on you that you are about to break. You know that people would be there for you if you asked, but you don’t even know how to ask for help or lean on others.
With a smile on your face you give and give and give. The last thing you ever want is to be a burden. You know how it feels to carry the weight of other people’s problems and it’s exhausting.
So exhausting there are times when you can’t take it anymore.
You want to draw healthy boundaries, communicate your needs and find time for self care...but what does that even mean? It feels selfish to need time for yourself.
I know how it feels. As a helping professional myself, I totally get it.
I have good news for you. It is absolutely possible to love and care for others while drawing healthy boundaries and taking care of yourself.
It’s also possible to turn down the volume of the emotional stress you carry so you can separate your work and personal life.
You’ve come to the right place.
Imagine:
Building time for yourself into your weekly routine.
Communicating your needs to others easily and without guilt.
Facing the day with gratitude and enjoying the relationships around you.
Having a renewed sense of delight and meaning in your work.
Giving yourself the same care and compassion you give to others.
It’s time to take a breath
and take care of you.
I Can Help You:
Put down boundaries and practice effective communication that will not only help you; it will help others too.
Find an organizational process that helps you prioritize what’s really important so you can let go of the energy and time sucking people and activities that drain you.
Find coping skills that fill you up, so your tank is full when others need you.
Create a self-care plan that will help you find peace, contentment and a much needed break from your stressful life.
Practice communication skills that will help you enhance the relationships with those closest to you by building mutually supportive interactions.
How It Works
First, we talk through what you are experiencing so I can understand how you are thinking and feeling. Then we explore all the areas of your life that you feel responsible for and like juggling balls in the air, we figure out which ones are glass (meaning they break when they fall) and which ones are plastic (they bounce back if they fall). We identify your values and take some time to think about what is most important to you and how to live your life according to those values.
Doing that helps us to clarify what matters to you and what doesn’t, so you are crystal clear on what deserves your time and what can be a little lower on the priority list.
Next, I teach you about compassion fatigue so you recognize the symptoms and listen to your body when it needs a break.
Together we will come up with a Self Care Plan by identifying small, medium and large ways you can be in control of your life and your time. In order to give, which you do so well, your tank needs to be full. Being intentional about keeping your tank full will not only enhance the relationships that are meaningful to you, but your mind and body will thank you for showing some of that love to yourself too.
Next, we come up with ways to start placing healthy boundaries around your time. Don’t worry, that doesn’t mean that you need to be the bad guy or will let people down, it just means that you are intentional about how you organize your time.
We will talk though and practice strategies to communicate those boundaries so that people still get time with you, but it’s on your terms instead of theirs. Since we have already identified the balls that are glass and plastic, that leaves more free time in case the glass balls need attention so you are focusing your time and energy on what matters most.
Now that we’ve identified what matters, how to be intentional about your time and how to communicate those boundaries, it’s time to start scheduling in time for yourself.
That may look like monthly massages, an hour at Starbucks with a good book or scheduling in family time that is meaningful and fulfilling. It may also be taking the steps (at your own pace) to spend more time with people who fill you up and less time with people who drain you.
I can help you with that process too.
Before long our weekly sessions, turn to bi-weekly as you start to make changes and see the fruits that come from them. When you run into barriers and issues with push back from people in your life, no worries, we will come up with a plan to address them together. Using the strategies and coping skills learned and practiced in session, you will need less of me and our bi-weekly sessions become monthly until you’re like, “I’m good now, Suzie. I’m gonna take the next hour to myself at the beach. I’ll call you if I need you in the future”.
And I’ll be cheering you on!
How We Meet
My Office
My office is located in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, close to Jupiter, Palm Beach Island, Palm Beach Shores, Singer Island and North Palm Beach.
Online Therapy
Online therapy is located in the comfort of your home from anywhere in Florida.
Therapy in Nature
Incorporating nature as a therapeutic tool into our sessions adds an extra layer of depth, meaning and fun to the process.
